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System Properties Comparison Sequoiadb vs. TiDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.sequoiadb.com

pingcap.com

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Sequoiadb Ltd.

PingCAP, Inc.

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2013

2016

2018

Current release

8.0.0, March 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages

- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenarios

TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customers

Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing models

TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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